As publicly and repeatedly affirmed by both North and South, slavery is the cause of the present Civil War, preceded in 1845 by the creation of the Southern Baptist Convention in defense of African slavery as God’s will. Now, more and more slaves are taking emancipation into their own hands, fleeing their masters and seeking…
Dr. Galusha Anderson (illustration), a graduate of Rochester Theological Seminary (and the first to have earned a doctorate from Rochester), is the pastor of Second Baptist Church of St. Louis, Missouri. He has been pastor of the congregation for three turbulent years. During this time, two infant sons and his wife died, leaving Anderson with…
Less than two weeks after Mississippi’s secession from the United States of America, today marks the last entry of four years of “Slave Certificates” in the Record Book Adams County, Mississippi. Slave Certificates are required by Mississippi law, providing proof that slaves brought into Mississippi (typically from the Upper South) for the purpose of sale…